perspicuity

Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.

“Dear me, you are being truthful today,” he said, with remarkable perspicuity.

In a famous passage from Federalist 37, Madison doubted the capacity of language to produce the “perspicuity” — the linguistic precision — needed for such interpretation.

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As a teenager Ben received a letter from his father saying his writing was inferior: “in elegance of expression, in method and in perspicuity, of which he convinced me by several instances,” as Franklin recalled.